Quotes to Brighten Your Day

Some people have a gift for using language to lighten our
loads and brighten our days. Mark Twain had it; George
Burns had it. Over the years, I've collected thousands of
quotes and here are a few that I count on to make me smile.

'Don't be humble. You're not that great.'
--- Golda Meir

'Few things are harder to put up with than
the annoyance of a good example.'
--- Mark Twain

'I envy people who drink. At least they know
what to blame everything on.'
--- Oscar Levant

''The secret to staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age.'
--- Lucille Ball

'Old age is like everything else, to make
a success of it you got to start young.'
--- Fred Astaire

'You know your children are growing up when
they stop asking where they came from and
refuse to tell you where they're going.'
--- P. O'Brien

'You know who must be very secure in their
masculinity? Male ladybugs.'
--- Jay Leno

'I want to know why, if men rule the world,
they don't stop wearing neckties.'
--- Linda Ellerbee'

'I'd like to live like a poor man,
only with lots of money.'
--- Pablo Picasso

'I hate housework! You make the beds,
you do the dishes - and six months later
you have to start all over again.'
--- Joan Rivers

Philip Humbert

Quotes of the Week

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to
paint the canvas of our lives.
-- Louise Hay

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the
absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
-- Peter Drucker

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be
lost. Now put foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to be what we might have been.
-- George Eliot

Quotes of the Week

"You are what you think about all day long."
-- Dr. Robert Schuller

"Once you know that what you think about expands, you start
getting real careful about what you think about."
-- Wayne Dyer

"The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives."
-- Annie Dillard

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a
big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can
make which, over time, add up to big differences that we
often cannot foresee."
-- Marian Wright Edelman

Quote this day

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
­ Joe Gibbs, Hall of Fame American Football Coach

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of
it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an
alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw, American Television Journalist

Dream, Life & You

'Each of us was born with wings...(and) has the ability to
go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things
beyond our wildest imaginings.'
-- Barbara Stanny

'If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.'
-- Walt Disney

'A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan
and a deadline.'
-- Harvey Mackay

'It only takes one person to change your life - you.'
-- Ruth Casey

Quotes fot this day

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to
paint the canvas of our lives.
-- Louise Hay

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the
absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
-- Peter Drucker

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be
lost. Now put foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to be what we might have been.
-- George Eliot

Quotes of the day

"The beginning is always today."
-- Mary Wollstonecraft

"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it
flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
-- "William James

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
-- Thomas A. Edison

"Life is no `brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid
torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want
to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it
on to future generations."
-- George Bernard Shaw